Emmett Till’s mother declined an offer from the mortician to “touch up” her son’s body, and she made the decision to have an open casket funeral. “I think everybody needed to know what ...

Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till is born in Chicago's Cook County Hospital to Louis and Mamie Till. Also this year, sociologist Gunnar Myrdal publishes a landmark study on whites' preoccupation with ...

Emmett Till was 14 when he was brutally murdered ... and his mother insisted the coffin remain open so his injuries could be seen by the thousands of people who paid their respects in Chicago.

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...

A journalist whose 1956 article was billed as the “true account” of Emmett Till’s killing withheld information that suggested multiple people were involved in the boy’s abduction and death ...

Of the many people whose lives still cast shadows on our history, one of them is that of a little boy, a 14-year-old named Emmett Till who left Chicago full of playful life and returned ...

SEATTLE - In an exclusive interview, FOX 13 Seattle spoke with Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., a surviving witness to the kidnapping of Emmett Till, to hear his account of the events 69 years after that ...

The Emmett Till Antilynching Act is named for the black teenager whose brutal murder in Mississippi in 1955 helped spark the civil rights movement. Perpetrators of a lynching - death or injury ...

A new exhibit at a Cincinnati museum will tell the story of Emmett Till's murder and the role his mother played in fighting for justice. The exhibit, titled Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley ...